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Fedora 10 Problem: Broken XFCE Windows Manager

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After installing Fedora 10 with XFCE, when you try to customize your windows interface, you'll get the following:

"These settings cannot work with your current window manager (imsetting-xim)"

According to Fedora Project website, a bug in GTK2 is to blame. But we can't just wait for the bug to be fixed.

I simply use KDE display manager by setting /etc/sysconfig/desktop.

% cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop
DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE"

and restart your X windows (ctrl-alt-backspace) or restart your system.

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